Quotes about Atrocities

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The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are t — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many peo — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire, Questions sur les Miracles à M. Claparede, Professeur de Théologie à Genève, par un Proposant: Ou Extrait de Diverses Lettres de M. de Voltaire
Scientists and inventors of the USA (especially in the so-called "blue state" that voted overwhelmingly against Trump) h — Piero Scaruffi
I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared o — Amy Goodman
I don't know how to stop the atrocities. I don't know how to make people care. But looking into my sister's eyes, we see — Lisa J. Shannon, A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman
1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civ — Christopher Hitchens
We donot qualify as humans going by our acts, but we surely prove through our vulnerability and sufferings! — Ramana Pemmaraju
It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for — Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others, they won't win. — Stewart Stafford
It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own live — Paula Marantz Cohen, What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James & Jack the Ripper
Atrocities are easier to commit if respect for the victim can be neutralized. For this reason, humiliation handed out by — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
People generally don’t suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral a — David Brooks
I have argued elsewhere (Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence [2005]) that we need to treat ethics in bibli — Hector Avalos
Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, — Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true, he w — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Do not open your minds to the filtering of the fallacious doctrine that it is less infamous to murder men for their poli — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Lectures on the French Revolution
There was no more reasonable sequitur between “provocation” and “reaction” in the case of the French Revolution than in — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
As a human rights activist it is concerning to me that those committing atrocities against vulnerable people view these — Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency
It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing can be — Damon Knight, One Side Laughing: Stories Unlike Other Stories